The Charles Pont Collection relating to Frederic Goudy consists of book dummies,
printing plates, metal type, and assorted miscellany relating to American printer
and type designer Frederic
Goudy, collected by artist and author Charles E. Pont. The material was cataloged
by Pont's daughter Joan after his death.

Book dummies consist of dummies for two books by Charles Pont, F.W.G.: Some Letters by Goudy and Ships and Such. Dummies include penciled sketches, page layouts, and photographs. Neither appear
to have ever been published.

Most of the Printing plates are by Frederic Goudy and feature his type,
though the precise typefaces are not known. The bulk are metal and mounted on
wooden blocks, though there is one woodblock. Plates
include blocks of text, alphabet samples, stylized capital letters, and various
lines of text. Of particular
interest is one which is a reproduction of a letter from Goudy, with his signature.
There are also
two plates by Pont, both illustrations, perhaps intended as illustrations for his
book. For ease of identification and to ensure they are replaced in their correct
location, each plate has been assigned a unique number corresponding to a numbered
space in the box.

Type contains a complete set of Bertham, Goudy's 100th font, named after his wife Bertha.
There are
also several packets of unidentified type, including letters, decorations and so
on. The original groupings have been retained.
However, the original packaging (a mix of decaying/damaged cardboard boxes and
plastic bags) had no
identifying information, so the typeface(s) represented are unknown.

A few Miscellaneous items complete the collection: an advertisement from
Pont's Blue Dolphin Press for prints from the two illustrations mentioned above,
a charred piece of wood
from Goudy's Mill after one of the two fires that destroyed much of his work, a
packet of "furniture" (thin pieces of wood used to hold a block of type together as
a unit) and a thin sheet of paper
with proofs of a few of the plates in the collection.

Access Restrictions

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require
advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance
concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before
publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Item 16: Goudy type after fire (identified as such by Joan Pont) 1939
- twenty or so pieces of type, charred and damaged by fire

Oversize 3

Unidentified pieces of type, miscellaneous

This consists of six packets of various pieces of type, some letters, some decorative
flourishes. The original groupings have been maintained, but each group has been
moved out of its original container into a small bag. The original containers (decaying
cardboard boxes) had no identifying information, so the typeface(s) represented are
unknown.